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Ahmed, Akbar S. MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS.

£16.00

A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology. 173pp. Index. Based on field-work in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan's N.W.Frontier Province. The author was Political Agent, South Waziristan Agency. Very good in very good dustwrapper.. 1976 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Allen, Charles. SOLDIER SAHIBS.

£14.00

The Men who Made the North-West Frontier. 368pp. Index. 23 photographs and 2 maps. Owner's bookplate and address label. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, John Murray.

Anon (officers of the regiment). THE GUIDES 1846-1922.

£200.00

347pp. Index. 11 maps in the text and 6 (of 7) in rear pocket. 19 b/w photographs. Ex-Westminster Public Library with label, rubber stamp marks to maps and plates, spine mark and embossed mark on front board. Mainly relating to campaigns in Afghanistan and on the North-West Frontier. World War I in Mesopotamia. Very good. 1938 Gale and Polden, Aldershot.

308pp. 2 maps and 8 plates. Very good. 1939 First edition, John Murray.

Bayley, Victor. PERMANENT WAY THROUGH THE KHYBER.

£65.00

287pp. 16 full-page photographs. Very good. Top corner bumped. A nice copy of a scarce edition. 1934 First edition, Jarrolds.

Blake, Christopher. A VIEW FROM WITHIN.

£10.00

The Last Years of British Rule in South-East Asia. 206pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Service with the Somerset Light Infantry and the Dogra Regiment on the NW frontier in WW2 India and then a civil servant in post-war Malaya. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Castle Cary.

A Soldier in India. 208pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Service with the Dogra Regiment on the Frontier, in Burma and during Partition. Fine in fine dw. 1974 First edition, Johnson.

Burt, Michael. LEAN BROWN MEN.

£10.00

317pp. Novel of the North-West Frontier. Foreword by Field Marshall the Lord Birdwood. Very good indeed. 1942 Reprint, Ward-Lock.

Candler, Edmund. ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.

£50.00

278pp. 35 photographs and a map. Travels in Kashmir and the Khyber. Very good indeed. A very bright, clean copy. 1919 First edition, Cassell.

Caroe, Olaf. THE PATHANS 550BC-1957AD.

£38.00

521pp. Index. 12 plates and 6 maps. The author was the last British Governor of the North-West Frontier Province. Very good in very good dw. 1962 Reprint, Macmillan.

Cooper, Ashley. THE KHYBER CONNECTION.

£10.00

The Furrow and the Raj. 238pp. Index. Card covers. 48 b/w photographs. Explores the multitude of links between people in rural Suffolk and the experience of India and Burma. Reminiscences and memorials illuminated by the author's travels. An unusual and interesting perspective. Very good. 1985 First Bulmer.

Cornet. THE BROKEN LINK.

£10.00

189pp. Lively stories of Tent Clubs, sport and service on the Frontier. Very good in chipped dw. 1951 First edition, Bles.

Historic City of the Frontier. 152pp. 4to. Many photographs in colour. The author was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Peshawar. Fine in pictorial boards. 2002 Reprint, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore.

With historical and directory information and notes on all places of interest. 92pp. Index. viii pp advertisments. Small 8vo. Card covers. Very good apart from a little wear to paper spine. No date (1940s during the war) J.Ray and Sons, Rawalpindi & Peshawar.

Diver, Maud. DESMOND'S DAUGHTER.

£22.00

566pp. Novel set against the Tirah campaign of 1897-98. Very good. Inscription. 1916 First edition, Blackwood.

Diver, Maud. A WILD BIRD.

£10.00

575pp. Set In England and Peshawar in 1927. Very good. 1932 Reprint, John Murray.

Diver, Maud. THE GREAT AMULET.

£12.00

406pp. Second novel in NW Frontier trilogy. Dedicated to Trix Fleming, Kipling's sister. Very good indeed. An outstanding copy. No date, Blackwood.

The Mein Family Photographs 1870-1901. 96pp. Paperback. Excellent photographs and explanatory text of the military experience of one family. Includes a range of photographs taken during the Afghan War of 1879-80. Fine. 2000 First edition, Tempus Publishing, Stroud.

334pp. Folding map in rear pocket. Photographs in colour and b/w. 12 maps and 5 plans. Well printed in Japan. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1971 First edition, Kabul, Afghan Tourist Organization.

The Story of a Pony on the Indian Frontier. 179pp. Illustrated by K. F. Barker. Very good. Inscription. A little slack. 1934 First A. & C. Black.

Farrington, Anthony (compiles). GUIDE TO THE RECORDS OF THE INDIA OFFICE MILITARY DEPARTMENT.

£28.00

513pp. Index. In stiff card boards with unlettered spine. From the library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Very good indeed, 1982 India Office Library and Records.

Fraser, Lovat. INDIA UNDER CURZON AND AFTER.

£25.00

496pp. Index. Large folding map. 4 tissue-guarded plates. Long sections on Tibet, Persia and the Frontier. An adulatory record of Curzon's administration by the former editor of 'The Times of India'. Front endpaper removed. Private library label but no other library marks. Otherwise a nice copy. 1911 First edition, Heinemann.

Government of India. THE QUETTA EARTQUAKE 1935

£55.00

26pp. Folding map. 9 b/w photographs. In the original red wrappers. Very good. 1935 Government of India, Simla.

Guest, Captain Freddie. INDIAN CAVALRYMAN.

£14.00

220pp. Memories of an officer in the Indian Army between the wars. Service on the Frontier, pig-sticking and polo. Very good. Spine cloth a little faded. Owner's name. 1959 First edition, Jarrolds.

Guruge, Ananda W.P. MAHAVAMSA.

£65.00

The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka. 1129pp. Introduction, translation and notes. A Pali Buddhist epic. Very good in complete but chipped and marked dw. Spotting to fore-edge. 1989 First edition, Associated Newspapers, Colombo.

Harris, John. MUCH SOUNDING OF BUGLES.

£13.00

The Siege of Chitral, 1895. 248pp. Index and notes. 29 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Hutchinson.

292pp. Indian service in the Royal Engineers up to his promotion to Major in 1940. Bengal and the Frontier. Very good in very good dw. 1951 First edition, William Blackwood.

Hobday, Major E.A.P. SKETCHES ON SERVICE DURING THE INDIAN FRONTIER CAMPAIGNS OF 1897.

£126.00

159pp. 'Containing 57 full-page engravings from original drawings and 14 photographic portraits of the commanding officers and their staffs'. A staff officer's sketches and comments on the Malakand Field Force. In the original brown cloth now a little grubby. All edges gilt. Very good. One plate loose. 1898 First edition, James Bowden.

Hunt, Wray. MOTI RAM BAHADUR.

£13.00

248pp. 6 colour plates from paintings by H.J.White. Stories of heroic young Jat soldier who serves his English officers well. Very good. 1937 First edition, Pitman.

Hutchinson, Colonel H.D. THE CAMPAIGN IN TIRAH 1897-1898.

£76.00

An Account of an Expedition against the Orakzais and Afridis. 250pp. Folding map. 20 plates. 6 maps and plans. Appendix of officers killed and wounded. Recased in the original boards. Very good internally but boards a little marked and faded. 1898 First edition, Macmillan.

Ingall, Francis. THE LAST OF THE BENGAL LANCERS.

£5.00

157pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Service on the Frontier, in India to 1947 and later in Pakistan. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper.

In pictorial boards. 128pp. Frontispiece in b/w. Story retold with invented dialogue. Very good. No date (1900s) SPCK.

Jaffar, S.M. PESHAWAR.

£16.00

City on the Frontier. xvi + 192pp. Index. Reprint of 1945 book together with other articles by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Oxford University Press, Karachi.

James, B.A. (edits). HIGH NOON OF EMPIRE.

£10.00

The Diary of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tyndall 1895-1915. 190pp. Index. 13 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Extracts from a daily diary of service on the North West Frontier, East Africa and France. Amongst other postings he was Adjutant to the 67 Punjabis and 40th Pathans. Fine in fine dw. 2007 First edition, Pen & Sword.

The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-1875. 277pp. Index. Paperback edition. Very good indeed. 1983, Century.

Keenan, Brigid. TRAVELS IN KASHMIR.

£10.00

A popular history of its peoples, places and crafts. 226pp. Index. Endpaper maps. Well illustrated including many 19th and early 20th century watercolours in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

Khan, Lt.Col M.Afzal. CHITRAL AND KAFIRISTAN:

£16.00

A Personal Study. 104pp. Card covers. The author commanded the Chitral Scouts for three years. 3 folding maps, a folding genealogy of the ruling family and 20 b/w photographs. Very good. 1980 Reprint, for the author , Peshawar,

Knight, E.F. WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET.

£21.00

495pp. With a map and 54 illustrations. In the original decorated green cloth. Knight observed and reported on the Hunza expedition of 1891. Ex-Mudie's circulating library with their label on front board. Very good internally. Corners bumped and boards rubbed. The map has split at the crease and the larger part is missing. 1893 Second edition, Longmans.

Knight, E.F. WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET.

£48.00

495pp. With a map and 54 illustrations. In the original decorated green cloth. Knight observed and reported on the Hunza expedition of 1891. Some faint former damp stains. Corners bumped and boards rubbed but a sound copy. 1893 Second edition, Longmans.

Lumsden, General Sir Peter S and Elsmie, George R. LUMSDEN OF THE GUIDES.

£58.00

A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden. 333pp. Index. 12 illustrations and 3 maps. Bound in green cloth for 'Murray's Imperial Library'. Very good. A little colour loss to boards. 1900 Second edition, John Murray.

MacFetridge, C.H.T and Warren, J.P. TALES OF THE MOUNTAIN GUNNERS.

£27.00

An Anthology. 327pp. 16 illustrations, 1 in colour and 11 maps and diagrams. Snaffles painting on dw. A collection of reminiscences and writings by those associated with the regiment which mainly served on the North West Frontier. Library markings on the reverse of the title page but not elsewhere. Very good in very good dw. 1973 First edition, William Blackwood, Edinburgh.

MacFetridge, C.H.T and Warren, J.P. TALES OF THE MOUNTAIN GUNNERS.

£32.00

An Anthology. 327pp. 16 illustrations, 1 in colour and 11 maps and diagrams. Snaffles painting on dw. A collection of reminiscences and writings by those associated with the regiment which mainly served on the North West Frontier. Fine in near-fine dw. 1973 First edition, William Blackwood, Edinburgh.

MacFetridge, C.H.T and Warren, J.P. TALES OF THE MOUNTAIN GUNNERS.

£27.00

An Anthology. 327pp. 16 illustrations, 1 in colour and 11 maps and diagrams. Snaffles painting on dw. A collection of reminiscences and writings by those associated with the regiment which mainly served on the North West Frontier. Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1973 First edition, William Blackwood, Edinburgh.

MacMunn, Lieut-General Sir George. VIGNETTES FROM THE INDIAN WARS.

£28.00

214pp. Index. 19 illustrations. A soldier's account of many 19th century campaigns. Very good in complete dw. An excellent copy. No date (1930s) Sampson Low.

Magazine. THE ROAD.

£14.00

Vol II. No.2. 58pp. Wrappers. Photographs and drawings. Edited by Rev.D.S.McKenzie, Chaplain, Razmak. A magazine for the army on the North-West Frontier (not missionary). Very good. April 1927 Lahore.

301pp. Index. Signed by Marsden on the title page. Corrective to NW Frontier stereotypes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2013 Oxford University Press, Karachi.

Maxwell, Robert (edits). JIMMIE STEWART - FRONTIERSMAN

£12.00

The Edited Memoirs of Major General Sir J.M. Stewart, KCB CMG. 113pp. Index. 15 maps. 19 b/w photographs. Military service from 1883 on the Frontier and then with the Gurkhas in Burma and Tibet. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Pentland Press.

The Story of the North West Frontier. 393pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 35 b/w illustrations. History of British involvement on the frontier and in Afghanistan. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First, Macdonald and Jane's.

Miller, Charles. KHYBER.

£10.00

The Story of the North West Frontier. 393pp. Index. Endpaper maps. 35 b/w illustrations. History of British involvement on the frontier and in Afghanistan. Very good in very good dw. 1977 First edition, Macdonald and Jane's.

Mitchell, Norval. SIR GEORGE CUNNINGHAM.

£14.00

183pp. Folding map. Service on the Frontier from 1914. He was Governor of N.W.Frontier Province 1937-46. Fine in fine dw. 1968 First edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh.

Moncrieff, Major General Sir George Scott. CANALS AND CAMPAIGNS.

£10.00

An Engineer Officer in India 1877-1885. 174pp. Card covers. Irrigation projects, railways and frontier wars. Includes as an appendix three lectures (36pp) delivered by the author in 1885 on 'The Frontier Railways of India'. Fine. 1987 First edition, BACSA.

Moorhouse, Geoffrey. TO THE FRONTIER.

£10.00

285pp. Endpaper maps. A journey through Pakistan from Karachi to Gilgit. Fine in fine dw. 1984 Second impression, Hodder.

Moorhouse, Geoffrey. TO THE FRONTIER.

£10.00

285pp. Travels on the North-West Frontier from Sind to Gilgit. Fine in fine dw. 1984 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.

Morris, John. HIRED TO KILL.

£14.00

Some Chapters of Autobiography. 272pp. Index. Stories of 1924 Everest expedition and Frontier service with the Gurkhas. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Spotting to edges. 1960 First edition, Hart-Davis.

Murphy, Dervla. WHERE THE INDUS IS YOUNG.

£5.00

A Winter in Baltistan. 266pp. Index. 9 b/w photographs. Three month's winter travelling in the Karakoram with her six year old daughter. Bookclub edition. Fine in very good dw. 1978 Readers Union.

362pp. Index. 52 b/w illustrations. Folding map. In the original red cloth. Very good. 1938 First edition, The London Book Company, Peshawar.

Pennell, Dr T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER.

£24.00

A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 11 photographs. Very good. 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co.

Pennell, T.L. AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER.

£80.00

A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches. 324pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Doctor missionary on the North-West Frontier Corners bumped but a very good copy in the original green cloth 1909 Third edition Seeley & Co.

Perkins, Roger. THE PUNJAB MAIL MURDER.

£10.00

The Story of an Indian Army Officer. 91pp. Index. Many illustrations. Much military detail on North West Frontier campaign of 1930-31. Celebrated 1931 murder of a British officer of the 2nd/8th Punjab Regiment. Extraordinary detail on officers and politically motivated assassins. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Picton.

Ponder, S.E.G. SEVEN CANTONMENTS.

£23.00

252pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. Account of pre-war day-to-day military life with the mountain artillery on the North-West Frontier. Boards a little rubbed and some light spotting but a sund copy. No date (1930s) Stanley Paul.

A Soldier in India 1931-1947. 256pp. 22 b/w photographs. Pre-war service with the Tochi Scouts on the North West Frontier (and WW2 in Norway and Burma). Very good indeed in like dw. 1979 First edition, Cassell.

Prendergast, John. PRENDER'S PROGRESS.

£12.00

A Soldier in India 1931-1947. 256pp. 22 b/w photographs. Pre-war service on the North West Frontier (and WW2 in Norway and Burma). Signed by the author on the title page. Very good indeed in like dw. 1979 First edition, Cassell.

Prendergast, John. PRENDER'S PROGRESS.

£5.00

A Soldier in India 1931-1947. 256pp. 22 b/w photographs. Pre-war service on the North West Frontier (and WW2 in Norway and Burma). Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. Inscription. 1979 First edition, Cassell.

Prendergast, John. PRENDER'S PROGRESS.

£5.00

A Soldier in India 1931-1947. 256pp. 22 b/w photographs. Pre-war service on the North West Frontier (and WW2 in Norway and Burma). Very good in very good dw. 1979 First edition, Cassell.

Prendergast, John. PRENDER'S PROGRESS.

£5.00

A Soldier in India 1931-1947. 256pp. 22 b/w photographs. Pre-war service on the North West Frontier (and WW2 in Norway and Burma). Very good. 1979 First edition, Cassell.

Richards, D.S. THE SAVAGE FRONTIER.

£14.00

A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars. 214pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations and a map. Fine in fine dw. 1990 First edition, Macmillan.

Richards, D.S. THE SAVAGE FRONTIER.

£12.00

A History of the Anglo-Afghan Wars. 214pp. Index. 10 b/w illustrations and a map. Near-fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1990 First edition, Macmillan.

Rooney, John. ON HEELS OF BATTLES.

£10.00

A History of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, 1780-1886. 129pp. Index. Soft covers. Pakistan Christian History Monograph No 3. Very good. Some underlining. 1986 Christian Study Centre, Rawalpindi

The Story of the North-West Frontier. 234pp. Index. 18 portraits. Study of key figures both Pushtun and British. Fine in near-fine dw. 1984 First edition, Faber.

Skeen, General Sir Andrew. LESSONS IN IMPERIAL RULE.

£10.00

Instructions for British Infantrymen on the Indian Frontier. xii + 144pp. Index. Reprint of 1939 edition of 'Passing It On'. Military instruction for young officers fighting on the Afghan frontier. Very good. 2008 Frontline Books.

Smeeton, Miles. A TASTE OF THE HILLS.

£18.00

205pp. 24 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Autobiography of cavalry officer - pig-sticking, point to point big game and NW Frontier service - and mountaineeer attempting Tirich Mir with his wife, Beryl, and Tenzing. Very good indeed in very slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis.

Smyth, Sir John. MILESTONES.

£16.00

A Memoir. 304pp. Index. 36 b/w photographs. Memoirs of General who won the VC in France in 1915, served in seven Indian frontier campaigns with the Sikhs, and commanded the 17th Indian Division at the Sittang Bridge disaster in Burma. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1979 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson.

Snaffles (C.J.Payne). MORE BANDOBAST.

£98.00

4to. 12 tipped-in plates in colour and many drawings in b/w. Field sports and army life on the North-West Frontier in India and in Somaliland and Aden. Very good in pictorial dw. A little wear to the cloth at the top of the spine and to the wrapper there. All illustrations fine. 1936 First edition, Collins.

371pp. Index and bibliography. 31 b/w photographs and 3 maps. The story of the Indian Political Service 1919-1947. Chapters on each region of India with much on the North West Frontier. Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1987 First edition, Cape.

An Autobiography. 280pp. Celebrated headmaster in imperial Kashmir. Very good in remans of dw. No date, Seeley, Service.

Tyndale-Biscoe, E.D. 50 YEARS AGAINST THE STREAM.

£21.00

The Story of a School in Kashmir 1880-1930. 96pp. Many b/w photographs. Presentation copy inscribed 'with C.P.Tyndale Biscoe's compliments. Very good. Edges and prelims spotted. Boards unevenly faded. 1930 First edition, Mysore.

Ure, John. SHOOTING LEAVE.

£5.00

Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game. 275pp. Paperback. The story of 16 British and Russian officers who were players of the Great Game in the nineteenth century. Fine. 2010 Constable.

Ure, John. SHOOTING LEAVE.

£10.00

Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game. 275pp. The story of 16 British and Russian officers who were players of the Great Game in the nineteenth century. Very good in very good dw. 2010 First edition, Constable.

Valentine, D.M. MINDFUL OF OUR STEWARDSHIP.

£10.00

Eleven Years at the End of the Raj. 142pp. 44 b/w photographs. Card covers. Missionary life in Amritsar, Quetta and Karachi. Fine. 1995 True to Type Books.

The original despatches of Winston S.Churchill, War Correspondent 1897-1900. 350pp. Index. His contributions to the 'Morning Post and 'Daily Telegraph' from India and Africa reprinted for the first time. Fine in near-fine dw. A lovely copy. 1973 Viking Press, New York.

Woods, Frederick (edits). YOUNG WINSTON'S WARS.

£5.00

The original despatches of Winston S.Churchill, War Correspondent 1897-1900. 350pp. Index. His contributions to the 'Morning Post' and 'Daily Telegraph' from India and Africa reprinted for the first time. Very good in very good dw. Large armorial bookplate. 1972 First edition, Leo Cooper.

Woods, Frederick (edits). YOUNG WINSTON'S WARS.

£5.00

The original despatches of Winston S.Churchill, War Correspondent 1897-1900. 350pp. Index. His contributions to the 'Morning Post' and 'Daily Telegraph' from India and Africa reprinted for the first time. Fine in fine dw. 1972 First edition, Leo Cooper.